Sultanpur Lok Sabha Elections and Results 2014

Sultanpur Lok Sabha Election Summary

Sultanpur is essentially an agricultural district located on the banks of river Gomti in Uttar Pradesh. This year in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections Sultanpur witnessed a competition among SP's Shakeel Ahmad, BJP's Varun Gandhi, BSP's Pawan Pandey, AAP's Shailendra Pratap Singh and Congress' Amita Sanjay Singh.

Varun Gandhi of BJP was declared as the winner of the polls.

BJP's candidate Varun Gandhi, won the election by a resounding 410348 votes, defeating Pawan Pandey by a margin of 178902 votes. In third place, SP's Shakeel Ahmad won a total of 228144 votes.

The sitting MP, Sanjay Singh from the Indian National Congress had won the 2009 elections with 300,411 votes (total votes being 7,07,855) thereby grabbing a vote share of 42.44%.

BSP's Mohd. Tahir who was the winner in the 2004 elections came a close second in the 2009 elections with 201,632 votes comprising 28.48% of the total votes and Ashok Pandey of the Samajwadi party came in a close third by securing a total of 1,07,895 votes followed by the BJP's candidate Surya Bhan Singh.

In the district of Sultanpur, civic woes top the list of issues along with the challenge of the low child sex ratio of 886 girls to 1000 boys. This predominantly agrarian economy is in need of a complete up-liftment, be it the transport facilities, the roads, the education or other sectors.

An overall lack of growth and development in the vicinity are the main issues being surfaced by the residents of Sultanpur.

The Parliamentary Constituency of Sultanpur is one of the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies of the state of Uttar Pradesh formed prior to the 1951 elections. The Sultanpur Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 38) consists of 1,430,955 number of electorates in totality, of these 764,314 are males and 666,641 are females as the Election commission of India 2009 data suggests. It presently comprises of five Vidhan Sabha segments of which one was reserved for the SC category. The administrative headquarters of Sultanpur district is situated in the city of Sultanpur. It is located on the right banks of the river Gomti at an average elevation of 95 meters. This district is part of the Faizabad Division. Hindi is the official language of Sultanpur with Awadhi being widely spoken by the locals.

According to the census data of 2011, Sultanpur has a total population of 116,211 of which 52.54% are males and 47.46% are females. It has a sex ratio of 886 females per 1000 males and 10.44% of the population is below the age of six. The city of Sultanpur has an average literacy of 87.61 % with male literacy at 91.45% and female literacy at 83.37%. Hinduism is the predominant religion here with 82% of the total population being Hindus. The economy of this city is primarily dependent on agriculture and small scale industries. Sultanpur has a promising number of notable schools and colleges, both government and private. The National Highway NH-56, NH-96 and NH-232 pass through the area.

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Sultanpur Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Sultanpur parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Sultanpur constituency is Feroze Varun Gandhi of BJP.